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Ich möchte kein Mann sein
Also known as I Do Not Want to Be a Man in the USA
(1918) Germany
B&W : Three reels
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Cast: Ossi Oswalda [Ossi], Kurt Goetz [Doktor Kersten], Ferry Silka [Counsellor Brockmüller], Margarete Kupfer [gouvernante (the governess)], Viktor Janson [?] [the nightclub band leader]?

Projektions Aktiengesellschaft Union-Film [PAGU] production; distributed by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA]. / Produced by Paul Davidson. Scenario by Hanns Kräly and Ernst Lubitsch. Set design by Kurt Richter. Set decoration by Kurt Richter. Cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl. / Released 1 October 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Listing updated: 21 September 2023.

References: Film viewing : Shipman-Cinema p. 75; Weinberg-Lubitsch p. 322 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.